Current Projects:

Coding a New SiteFinity Site

I just started a new three month contract job helping a company set up new web site. This site will use SiteFinity for the CMS. I am creating creating custom controls to read in the products from a different database. This site will be a mixture of products to get the look and feel requirement

The products page navigation is very interesting, it need to be done without flash. There is no straight out of the box solution. I am using Adobe Spry accordian with Telerik rotator to set up product navigation.

I will be learning to use Scene 7 from Adobe to serve up the products images.

 (Update: 27 May 2010)
The site is up and running.  Everything is working great.  I have started another web application, and have a third application line up for July.

I ended up dropping Adobe Spry accordion and using the Microsoft ajax accordion which works much better across browsers.  The Telerik rotator work great until more requirements came down, I am now using Jquery for that. 

 

Creating Custom IDX/MLS Products

In the process of developing a new interface for IDX/MLS due to high demand
This product will allow Web Sites to displaying only Foreclosures and Short sales.
If you are Broker or Agent and need a great CMS with MLS functions contact me.

(Update: 18 Oct 2009)
Plan on moving this ideal to Sitefinity

(Update 30 Oct 2009)
The web site that uses the new interface to display local MLS data is live now. A small example of the capabilities of the interface can be found at http://www.frankmoriarty.com/mlssearch.aspx.

(Update 12 Dec 2009)
Each IDX/MLS services has a different data layout. Working on a second version for this product. This for a new site. I expect have this new service set up by the end of the year.

(Update 27 May 2010)
My second version is finish and working good.  I did have a problem with the MLS Data provider changing the field format and values. This created a problem where I had to update the database scheme, and change some front end code for the search filter.    Example: List Price went from 100000 to 100,000.  I ended up creating a trigger in SQL to remove the ',' from the value before inserting into the database. 

 

Current Studies:

Best practice in ASP.net 3.5 C#
(Update 27 May 2010)  Make that 4.0 C# now, VS 2010 rocks

Just started studying ASP.Net MVC 2, cool so far